I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
Such is the islanders' fondness for their roof and four walls, some literally move them by ox cart - or even over water by raft - when settling in a new location.
An accordionist Such is the islanders' fondness for their roof and four walls, some literally move them by ox cart - or even over water by raft - when settling in a new location.
Rene Marques's The Ox Cart (La Carreta), about a family migrating from Puerto Rico to NYC, opens at the Greenwich Mews Theatre in Manhattan with Miriam Colon and Raul Julia.
Yesterday the ox cart, Today the bullet train, Tomorrow the marvel we can't yet imagine, Yet even the ox cart was moving toward it, Surely and patiently into the future.
Borrow a bicycle to explore the cinnamon and vanilla plantations, or travel by ox cart along the coast -- a traditional form of transport which remains from the islands early days.